Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 115
Suddenly a hand seized the beetle, and squeezed him, and turned him round and round.
Who acts: hand · What happens: seize, squeeze, turn · To what, where: beetle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 seized | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hand | det |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beetle | det |
| 6 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 squeezed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 squeezed | cc |
| 9 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 squeezed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turned | obj |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 13 turned | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 round | cc |
| 17 | round | round | ADV | _ | 15 round | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | a hand | the beetle | suddenly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Theme | |||
| 2 | squeeze | past | a hand not said here | beetle | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | a hand not said here | beetle | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme he=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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